Singer Mindy McCready is missing with her 5-year-old son

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities say country singer Mindy McCready is missing with her 5-year-old son, and a judge has given her until Thursday to return the boy.

The state Department of Children and Families says a missing persons report was filed with Cape Coral police Tuesday night after McCready took her son Zander from her father’s home.

McCready doesn’t have custody of her son — her mother does — and the singer was allowed to visit the boy at her father’s home, according to a department spokesman. On Tuesday, DCF discovered that McCready and the boy were not at her father’s home.